Word: stiltedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From a world-worn valise stashed with his Manhattan publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, came the last will and testament of Novelist Ernest Hemingway. Handwritten by Hemingway at his Cuban ranch six years ago, the onionskin document left his entire unevaluated estate (including the manuscripts of A Farewell to...
Wild Gentleness. On the surface, his Mary Magdalene (see overleaf) seductive though she may be, seems an excessive display of virtuosity, as stilted and brittle as a piece of porcelain. But there is nothing static about the Massa Fermana polyptych. From the wild gentleness of John the Baptist to the...
'Cliffies frequently and justly complain that the dorm system provides few opportunities for sustained informal contact with faculty members. What little association there is between the faculty and Radcliffe girls under the present system--teas, special dinners, sherries--is inevitably stilted and artificial. And while the funereal atmosphere of these...
Kennedy congratulated Shepard, told him that the presidential family had watched his flight on TV, and said that he was looking forward to seeing him in Washington. Said Shepard: "Thank you very much, Mr. President. It was certainly a very thrilling ride. I'd like to thank everybody who...
The New English Bible. An often skillful, sometimes stilted attempt to make the New Testament Scripture more intelligible to moderns.